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Connecticut Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Steven Alvarez is greeted by his son Gabriel as 200 members of the guard's 1st company, 102nd Infantry and F company, 186th Brigade Support Battalion returned to the guard's Army Aviation Support Facility at Bradley Airport in Windsor Locks after a year in Afghanistan. Sean D. Elliot/AP Photo

Dana Touran of Jordan, (r), and Pauline Louise Lopez of the Philippines, (l), fight during the quarterfinal match of the women's under-46 kg Taekwondo event at the 16th Asian Games in Guangzhou, China. Eugene Hoshiko/AP Photo

Abdul Rehman, an elderly Afghan man holds his kitten at a market on the second day of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, or Feast of the Sacrifice, in Kabul, Afghanistan. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

Russian fans light flares during the international friendly soccer match against Belgium in Voronezh, some 311 miles south of Moscow. Sergei Karpukhin/Reuters

A monkey performs at the annual cattle fair at Pushkar in Rajasthan state, India. Pushkar is a popular Hindu pilgrimage spot that is also frequented by foreign tourists who come to the town for its annual cattle fair and camel races. Rajesh Kumar Singh/AP Photo

An overturned aircraft sits next to others also damaged by high winds on the tarmac at Trenton Mercer Airport in Ewing Township, New Jersey. Mel Evans/AP Photo

Women sit in a former coal mine known as "El Chiflon del Diablo" as they stage a hunger strike near Lota town, some 354 miles south of Santiago. The rally is held against the end of a special employment program for victims of the earthquake in Chile early this year. The women are emulating the 33 miners who were rescued last month following more than two months underground at the Atacama desert, according to local media. Jose Luis Saavedra/Reuters

Wearing a T-shirt showing presidential candidate Jude Celestin, a man carries a girl with symptoms of cholera at the entrance of the St. Catherine hospital in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Less that two weeks to go before the election, a rapidly spreading cholera outbreak is infecting even the presidential campaign. Ramon Espinosa/AP Photo

An Afghan man carries a cage with a bird in Kabul, Afghanistan. Altaf Qadri/AP Photo

Children walk past police tape near a mini-market in the Zona Norte area of Tijuana, Mexico. According to residents at the scene, a man was shot to death in the store. Guillermo Arias/AP Photo

Police dog Kira and two police officers wearing bulletproof vests stand guard at the main train station in Berlin, Germany. Germany's interior minister announced Wednesday that he is ordering increased security in the country in light of a heightened threat from terrorism. Thomas de Maiziere, Germany's top security official, said a series of recent events suggest authorities are dealing "with a new situation." Michael Sohn/AP Photo

An employee holds two four-month-old artificially reared sturgeons at Novocherkassky fish farm, 43 miles north of Rostov-on-Don, Russia. The fish were created using artificial fertilization. Vladimir Konstantinov/Reuters

The Capitol building is seen at sunrise on Capitol Hill in Washington. Jim Young/Reuters

U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (c.) is flanked by Rep. John Larson (l.) and Rep. James Clyburn (r.) as she holds a news conference after a Democratic Caucus meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Democrats in the House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to retain Pelosi as their leader when Republicans take control of the chamber in January. Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

A skier makes his way down the slopes at Copper Mountain, Colorado. Blowing snow had also closed a 65-mile stretch of I-70 between Idaho Springs and Vail Tuesday night but that stretch has also since reopened. The ski resort received 6.5 inches of new snow from the latest storm. Mark Fox/AP Photo

Indian Muslims pray at the Jama Masjid mosque, one of India's largest, during morning prayers on Eid al-Adha in New Delhi, India. Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, or feast of sacrifice by slaughtering sheep and cattle in remembrance of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son. Kevin Frayer/AP Photo

Assailed first by a debt crisis, then acting as a front line in Europe’s migrant crisis, Greece has had an extremely difficult few years. Yet it has avoided civil conflict and has remained in the eurozone, contrary to many expectations.